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Shannon v. Graves-257 F.3d 1164 (10th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

confirms what is obvious: exposure to the human waste of others carries a significant risk of contracting infectious diseases such as Hepatitis A, shigella, and others. *fn1 There is no requirement ...

Barnard v. State of Oklahoma-119 P.3d 203 (Okla. Crim. App. 2005)

Case • 2005

charge to the custody of the Department of Corrections. What the Court is seeking to do is insert into the statute the prerequisite qualifier of "felony" into the first category of individuals when it does ...

Johnson v. Dellatifa-357 F.3d 539 (6th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

appealed this decision in what has been docketed as case number 03-1865. [24] Thus, in case numbers 03-1506 and 03-1865, we must review the propriety of the district court's orders dated February 18 ...

Johnson v. United States-534 F.3d 958 (8th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

was wearing his correctional officer uniform, attempted to detain him. Johnson took off into a field and Little Light went after him, initially on foot, and subsequently in his car. [14] What transpired ...

Beverly v. State-44 Conn.App. 641, 691 A.2d 1093 (Conn.App. 1997)

Case • 1997

in damages. [22] "`The existence of conflicting evidence limits the court's authority to overturn a jury verdict. The jury is entrusted with the choice of which evidence is more credible and what ...

Searles v. Dechant-393 F.3d 1126 (10th Cir. 2004.)

Case • 2004

] JURISDICTION [19] Before turning to the merits of this appeal, we must first address a rather complex jurisdictional issue arising from what appears to be an untimely notice of appeal. On October 23, 2003 ...

Greenawalt v. Indiana Department of Corrections-397 F.3d 587 (7th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

. [16] Nevertheless we do not think that the Fourth Amendment should be interpreted to reach the putting of questions to a person, even when the questions are skillfully designed to elicit what most ...

Hadix v. Caruso-248 Fed.Appx. 678 (6th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

this litigation. The original consent decree governed various aspects of prison conditions, including in-cell temperatures, medical care and mental health care, in what have become known as the Hadix Michigan ...

Teague v. Mayo-553 F.3d 1068 (7th Cir. 2009)

Case • 2009

judgment motions and conducted the trial--the conduct of which Teague does not complain about. What relief can we possibly provide for Teague? Teague points to no error in the conduct of this case which can ...

Swift v. Rinella-USDC, S.D. Ill., No. 07-cv-0748-MJR-PMF (Oct. 31, 2008)

Case • 2008

. Ct. 1694, 85 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1985)]?. Today we make explicit what was implicit in Garner's analysis, and hold that all claims that law enforcement officers have used excessive force -- deadly ...

Forts v. Ward-566 F.2d 849 (2nd Cir. 1977)

Case • 1977

to preliminary relief. See id.; 7 Moore, Federal Practice § 65.04[3]. This caveat is most compelling "where everything turns on what happened and that is in sharp dispute; in such instances, the inappropriateness ...

Calhoun v. Ramsey-408 F.3d 375 (7th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

. Tuttle, 471 U.S. 808, 822 (1985). [27] A second way of complaining about an express policy is to object to omissions in the policy. This, as we understand the argument, is what Calhoun is doing ...

Artz v. Barnhardt-330 F.3d 170 (3rd Cir. 2002).

Case • 2002

and they both had the same case number." Appellant's Br. at 14. "These connections," he adds, "are not what is contemplated in the statute." Id. [41] A. In analyzing Artz's argument, we begin with the key ...

United States v. Hodges-460 F.3d 646 (5th Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

, PRADO, and OWEN, Circuit Judges. [9] This appeal requires us to decide, for the first time, what requirements must be satisfied for a person on supervised release to waive his right to counsel ...

Sanders v. City of New York-218 F.Supp.2d 538 (S.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

what had already been produced. There is no need to remind this Court of the disruptions to the City at large after September 11, 2001. Nevertheless, the City's responses unconvincingly attempt ...

Szabo v. Bridgeport Machines, Inc.-249 F.3d 672 (7th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

. App. P. 5 asking us to review the district court's order certifying the class. [11] A nationwide class in what is fundamentally a breach-of-warranty action, coupled with a claim of fraud, poses ...

Arreola v. Choudry-533 F.3d 601 (7th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

and a court reporter present. He began the conversation by asking Laterza whether she had told Arreola's counsel after trial that she had suffered a sprained ankle, and Laterza responded, "You know what? I did ...

Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc., v. Beckwith-449 U.S. 155, 101 S. Ct. 446 66 L. Ed. 2d 358 (198

Case • 1980

was that a fund so deposited is "considered 'public money'" from the date of deposit until it leaves the account: that "the statute takes only what it creates"; and that "[there] is no unconstitutional taking ...

Allen v. Chicago Transit Authority-198 F.R.D. 495 (N.D.Ill. 2001)

Case • 2001

, the privilege must be established on a document-by-document basis; a blanket claim failing to specify what information is protected will [**6] not suffice. United States v. White, 970 F.2d 328, 334 (7th Cir. 1992 ...

Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System

Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Evidence, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, FBI

. Speaking to what he believed was a more plausible motive for the firings of the managers, Thompson noted that in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences issued a recommendation that crime labs be separate ...